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Behind Elegant Squares: True Crime in Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Behind Elegant Squares: True Crime in Santa Cruz de Tenerife
About this experience
What's included?
- ✓Directions to the starting point so that when you're in the right place, the tour will start
- ✓Lifetime access to this tour in English before your booking date and after it
- ✓Offline access to audio, maps, and geodata
- ✓Flexibility to explore at your own pace with a self-guided GPS tour
- ✓The VoiceMap App for Android and iOS
Not included
- ✕Smartphone and headphones
Itinerary
Plaza de España
You’ll pass through Plaza de España, the city’s main square, where Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron set a shallow seawater lake at its centre. Any costs related to visiting the area are not covered in this tour.
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Facing Plaza de España, the Real Casino de Tenerife is a private club founded in 1840, housed in a 1930s rationalist building that rises to a tower on its corner. Any costs related to visiting the area are not covered in this tour.
Pass by without stoppingPlaza Del Príncipe De Asturias
You’ll walk through Plaza del Príncipe de Asturias, laid out in the 1850s on a former convent orchard and shaded by Indian laurel trees planted in 1864. Any costs related to visiting the area are not covered in this tour.
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The route takes you past the Círculo de Amistad XII de Enero, a social club founded in 1855, whose white headquarters flies the society’s blue and white flags out front. Any costs related to visiting the area are not covered in this tour.
Pass by without stoppingCalle del Castillo
Calle del Castillo, the city’s main pedestrian shopping street, went by two other names from 1906, Alfonso XIII and then Fermín Galán, before taking its current name in 1936. Any costs related to visiting the area or making purchases there are not covered in this tour.
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Passing through Plaza del General Weyler, you’ll see its Carrara marble fountain, which faces the old Captaincy General headquarters that Weyler had built. Any costs related to visiting the area are not covered in this tour.
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The route crosses Puente Galcerán, opened in 1928 to carry traffic 20 metres above the Barranco de Santos ravine. Any costs related to visiting the area are not covered in this tour.
Pass by without stoppingTemplo Masónico
You’ll walk past the Templo Masónico de la Logia de Añaza, whose Egyptian Revival facade was built for a lodge founded in 1895 and seized by Franco’s forces in 1936. Any costs related to visiting the temple are not covered in this tour.
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